With a centuries' old warrior heritage, American Rangers endured the most difficult training that man could devise to overcome the most difficult challenges of the enemy and nature. For more than 14 months, the volunteers that made up the 2nd Ranger Battalion had been finely honed for combat. Now, on June 6, 1944 - D-Day - their battle would begin ...
Covers raids from J E B Stuart's 1862 ride around McClellan's army to James Wilson's crushing raids in Alabama and Georgia in 1865. In war, the raid is the epitome of daring. Usually outnumbered, raiders launch surprise attacks behind enemy lines, taking prisoners, destroying communications, and seizing supplies. In the Civil War, these men ...
Noted Ranger historian Robert W. Black turns his attention to a trio of the Confederacy's - and America's - most infamous raiders, rangers, and cavalrymen: John Singleton Mosby, John Hunt Morgan, and Nathan Bedford Forrest. Combining speed, mobility and boldness, these three soldiers struck critical blows against the Union during the Civil War, ...
In this gripping companion to his acclaimed "The Battalion", which told the story of the 2nd Ranger Battalion in World War-II, Robert W. Black turns his attention to the 1st, 3rd, and 4th Ranger Battalions, otherwise known as Darby's Rangers. These elite soldiers accompanied British commandos on the failed Dieppe Raid in August 1942, participated ...
Robert W. Black adds a new chapter to his story of the American Rangers, beginning with the birth of the Ranger idea in the 1600s and following Ranger forces through the Mexican War of 1846-48. This book features Ranger pioneers like Robert Rogers, Francis Marion, and George Rogers Clark.
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